Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Slavery
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My whole life, my mother told me, ‘Always remember — you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president.’
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In “The Other Madisons,” Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison—shares her family story and explores the issues of legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.
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In eighteenth–century Jamaica, who counted as a British subject? As Brooke N. Newman demonstrates in her impressively researched new book, the answer was complicated.
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Details how African-descended women’s societal, marital, and sexual decisions forever reshaped the racial makeup of Argentina
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Mary Ellen Pleasant was a former slave who posed as a white woman in San Francisco, amassed a fortune and fought for the rights of black people.
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William Isom II had been searching for his great-great-grandfather, Kelson Isom, for 20 years. He finally broke through the brick wall as a result of his work with the Black in Appalachia Project, researching a slave cemetery in Lee County, Virginia.
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Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom: Mulattoes in English Colonial North America and the Early United States Republic University of California at Berkeley Spring 2013 183 pages Aaron B. Wilkinson A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History This project investigates people of mixed…
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This is a book about the endeavor of racial classification in the service of racism.
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Even while he masterfully manages his kitchen and the lives of those in and around it, Hercules harbors secrets—including the fact that he is learning to read and that he is involved in a dangerous affair with Thelma, a mixed-race woman, who, passing as white, works as a companion to the daughter of one of…